Thiruvananthapuram: Intellectually challenged differently- abled children will soon don the garb of magicians in Kerala, thanks to an innovative programme drawn up by the state government. The Kerala Social Security Mission (KSSM), under the Social Justice Department of Government of Kerala, and the State Initiative on Disabilities (SID) are joining hands with Magic Academy here to formulate the unique troupe. Under the programme titled ‘MPower’, more than 400 differently-abled students from various schools would be given training in the Academy under the patronage of renowned magician Gopinath Muthukad and a team would be selected from them, reports PTI.
They would be the ambassadors of the state government’s ‘Anuyatra Campaign’, aimed at creating a friendly-state for differently-abled, KSSM Executive Director Dr Asheel said. KSSM organises social security programmes all over Kerala to extend service and support to the destitute, poor, aged, children, women, chronically ill cancer patients and other sections of population which deserve and demand care and protection. Anuyatra project for the management of disabilities in the state, according to the reports, adopts a rights-based life cycle approach to disability management, from primordial prevention to organising sustainable rehabilitation programmes for the disabled.
The selected team would be given training free of cost at the Academy for four months. The team would be officially launched on June 7 in the presence of dignitaries from various fields of the society, he said.
State Social Justice Minister K K Shylaja would inaugurate the ‘MPower’ programme at the Magic Planet in Kazhakuttom near here in a function today. Magic Planet is said to be the world’s first magic mansion, is totally a new concept with entirely magic themed park located at the Kinfra Film and Video Park, near Kazhakkoottam, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.